Encryption vs. Lawful Interception: EU policy news [cert.at]

I’ve commented here on this blog (or its German twin) quite a few time already on various legislative proposals on how the law enforcement agencies can keep their traditional access to the communication of suspects. See Ein paar Thesen zu aktuellen Gesetzesentwürfen (2017) Ein paar Gedanken zur „Überwachung verschlüsselter Nachrichten” (2024) Roles in Cybersecurity: CSIRTs / LE … Read more

Encryption vs. Lawful Interception: EU policy news [cert.at]

I’ve commented here on this blog (or its German twin) quite a few time already on various legislative proposals on how the law enforcement agencies can keep their traditional access to the communication of suspects. See Ein paar Thesen zu aktuellen Gesetzesentwürfen (2017) Ein paar Gedanken zur „Überwachung verschlüsselter Nachrichten” (2024) Roles in Cybersecurity: CSIRTs / LE … Read more

Encryption vs. Lawful Interception: EU policy news [cert.at]

I’ve commented here on this blog (or its German twin) quite a few time already on various legislative proposals on how the law enforcement agencies can keep their traditional access to the communication of suspects. See Ein paar Thesen zu aktuellen Gesetzesentwürfen (2017) Ein paar Gedanken zur „Überwachung verschlüsselter Nachrichten” (2024) Roles in Cybersecurity: CSIRTs / LE … Read more

Encryption vs. Lawful Interception: EU policy news [cert.at]

I’ve commented here on this blog (or its German twin) quite a few time already on various legislative proposals on how the law enforcement agencies can keep their traditional access to the communication of suspects. See Ein paar Thesen zu aktuellen Gesetzesentwürfen (2017) Ein paar Gedanken zur „Überwachung verschlüsselter Nachrichten” (2024) Roles in Cybersecurity: CSIRTs / LE … Read more

Encryption vs. Lawful Interception: EU policy news [cert.at]

I’ve commented here on this blog (or its German twin) quite a few time already on various legislative proposals on how the law enforcement agencies can keep their traditional access to the communication of suspects. See Ein paar Thesen zu aktuellen Gesetzesentwürfen (2017) Ein paar Gedanken zur „Überwachung verschlüsselter Nachrichten” (2024) Roles in Cybersecurity: CSIRTs / LE … Read more

Encryption vs. Lawful Interception: EU policy news [cert.at]

I’ve commented here on this blog (or its German twin) quite a few time already on various legislative proposals on how the law enforcement agencies can keep their traditional access to the communication of suspects. See Ein paar Thesen zu aktuellen Gesetzesentwürfen (2017) Ein paar Gedanken zur „Überwachung verschlüsselter Nachrichten” (2024) Roles in Cybersecurity: CSIRTs / LE … Read more

Encryption vs. Lawful Interception: EU policy news [cert.at]

I’ve commented here on this blog (or its German twin) quite a few time already on various legislative proposals on how the law enforcement agencies can keep their traditional access to the communication of suspects. See Ein paar Thesen zu aktuellen Gesetzesentwürfen (2017) Ein paar Gedanken zur „Überwachung verschlüsselter Nachrichten” (2024) Roles in Cybersecurity: CSIRTs / LE … Read more

CRA Vulnerability Reports: why would we not share them with other CSIRTs? [cert.at]

The Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847) defines security requirements for products with digital elements and requires vendors to report to national CSIRTs if a vulnerability in one of their products is actively exploited. This reporting is done via a “Single Reporting Platform” (as defined in Article 16), which is currently being built by ENISA … Read more

Multiple FortiGate devices compromised with a persistent read-only access [cert.at]

Please note: The original author of this post was Kamil Mankowski. Alexander Riepl was merely responsible for publishing and some translation efforts. On Friday, April 10th, Fortinet released information about a worldwide compromise of FortiGate devices, giving the attacker persistent read-only access. Threat actors seemingly used three known vulnerabilities in the SSL VPN feature to … Read more

A Revision of the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint [cert.at]

Introduction The original EU cybersecurity blueprint from 2017 (officially: “Commission Recommendation of 13.9.2017 on Coordinated Response to Large Scale Cybersecurity Incidents and Crises”) is now close to seven years old and an update is overdue. The Commission recently published a draft for an updated version, and I’d like to take this opportunity to publish my … Read more

A Revision of the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint [cert.at]

Introduction The original EU cybersecurity blueprint from 2017 (officially: “Commission Recommendation of 13.9.2017 on Coordinated Response to Large Scale Cybersecurity Incidents and Crises”) is now close to seven years old and an update is overdue. The Commission recently published a draft for an updated version, and I’d like to take this opportunity to publish my … Read more

A Revision of the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint [cert.at]

Introduction The original EU cybersecurity blueprint from 2017 (officially: “Commission Recommendation of 13.9.2017 on Coordinated Response to Large Scale Cybersecurity Incidents and Crises”) is now close to seven years old and an update is overdue. The Commission recently published a draft for an updated version, and I’d like to take this opportunity to publish my … Read more

A Revision of the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint [cert.at]

Introduction The original EU cybersecurity blueprint from 2017 (officially: “Commission Recommendation of 13.9.2017 on Coordinated Response to Large Scale Cybersecurity Incidents and Crises”) is now close to seven years old and an update is overdue. The Commission recently published a draft for an updated version, and I’d like to take this opportunity to publish my … Read more

A Revision of the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint [cert.at]

Introduction The original EU cybersecurity blueprint from 2017 (officially: “Commission Recommendation of 13.9.2017 on Coordinated Response to Large Scale Cybersecurity Incidents and Crises”) is now close to seven years old and an update is overdue. The Commission recently published a draft for an updated version, and I’d like to take this opportunity to publish my … Read more

A Revision of the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint [cert.at]

Introduction The original EU cybersecurity blueprint from 2017 (officially: “Commission Recommendation of 13.9.2017 on Coordinated Response to Large Scale Cybersecurity Incidents and Crises”) is now close to seven years old and an update is overdue. The Commission recently published a draft for an updated version, and I’d like to take this opportunity to publish my … Read more

A Revision of the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint [cert.at]

Introduction The original EU cybersecurity blueprint from 2017 (officially: “Commission Recommendation of 13.9.2017 on Coordinated Response to Large Scale Cybersecurity Incidents and Crises”) is now close to seven years old and an update is overdue. The Commission recently published a draft for an updated version, and I’d like to take this opportunity to publish my … Read more

A Revision of the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint [cert.at]

Introduction The original EU cybersecurity blueprint from 2017 (officially: “Commission Recommendation of 13.9.2017 on Coordinated Response to Large Scale Cybersecurity Incidents and Crises”) is now close to seven years old and an update is overdue. The Commission recently published a draft for an updated version, and I’d like to take this opportunity to publish my … Read more

A Revision of the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint [cert.at]

Introduction The original EU cybersecurity blueprint from 2017 (officially: “Commission Recommendation of 13.9.2017 on Coordinated Response to Large Scale Cybersecurity Incidents and Crises”) is now close to seven years old and an update is overdue. The Commission recently published a draft for an updated version, and I’d like to take this opportunity to publish my … Read more

A Revision of the EU Cybersecurity Blueprint [cert.at]

Introduction The original EU cybersecurity blueprint from 2017 (officially: “Commission Recommendation of 13.9.2017 on Coordinated Response to Large Scale Cybersecurity Incidents and Crises”) is now close to seven years old and an update is overdue. The Commission recently published a draft for an updated version, and I’d like to take this opportunity to publish my … Read more

Chat Control vs. File Sharing [cert.at]

The spectre of “law-enforcement going dark“ is on the EU agenda once again. I’ve written about the unintended consequences of states using malware to break into mobile phones to monitor communication multiple times. See here and here. Recently it became known that yet another democratic EU Member state has employed such software to spy on … Read more

Testing the Koord2ool [cert.at]

As part of the EU-funded project “AWAKE”, we built the Koord2ool, which is a tool that allowed us to track the state of an incident across our constituency over time. We implemented this application as an extension to LimeSurvey (an Open Source survey tool) which generates a dashboard to visualize the state of the answers … Read more

Another round: Government malware & digital surveillance [cert.at]

Not just the seasons, or my attempts to appear in the office in an outfit other than holey conference shirts, shorts and Birkenstock slippers that are cyclical. The desire of politicians for a “government trojan” or surveillance of digital communication seemingly follows a constant rhythm as well – and apparently it’s that time again. Federal … Read more

Another round: Government malware & digital surveillance [cert.at]

Not just the seasons, or my attempts to appear in the office in an outfit other than holey conference shirts, shorts and Birkenstock slippers that are cyclical. The desire of politicians for a “government trojan” or surveillance of digital communication seemingly follows a constant rhythm as well – and apparently it’s that time again. Federal … Read more

Another round: Government malware & digital surveillance [cert.at]

Not just the seasons, or my attempts to appear in the office in an outfit other than holey conference shirts, shorts and Birkenstock slippers that are cyclical. The desire of politicians for a “government trojan” or surveillance of digital communication seemingly follows a constant rhythm as well – and apparently it’s that time again. Federal … Read more

Another round: Government malware & digital surveillance [cert.at]

Not just the seasons, or my attempts to appear in the office in an outfit other than holey conference shirts, shorts and Birkenstock slippers that are cyclical. The desire of politicians for a “government trojan” or surveillance of digital communication seemingly follows a constant rhythm as well – and apparently it’s that time again. Federal … Read more

Another round: Government malware & digital surveillance [cert.at]

Not just the seasons, or my attempts to appear in the office in an outfit other than holey conference shirts, shorts and Birkenstock slippers that are cyclical. The desire of politicians for a “government trojan” or surveillance of digital communication seemingly follows a constant rhythm as well – and apparently it’s that time again. Federal … Read more